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and Tenant Acts. It is surprising to find that this
new jurisdiction is conferred not on the Circuit
Judges, as might be expected, but on the County
Registrar.
County Registrars are solicitors who are held
in high esteem by their colleagues, but essentially
they are officers attached to the Circuit Court.
It seems wrong in principle that a judicial func-
tion of this kind should be conferred on an officer
of the Court, even with the right of appeal to
the Judge.
There is a prevalent tendency in legislation to
erode the functions and jurisdiction of the Courts
established under the Constitution, which, in the
long run, must injure the judicial process and
respect for the rule of law and the Courts. A
citizen depends upon the Courts and judiciary
for the protection of his rights. The proper person
to try a judicial issue coming before the Circuit
Court is the Judge.
The majority of
the County Registrars are
solicitors who were formerly busy practitioners,
often in the area of the Courts which they now
serve, and many of the parties coming before
them in their capacity as arbitrators under the
new Bill will have been former clients of theirs,
pr^ at any rate, will be well known to them by
n-eason of their local connections. They may there
fore f_r.d themselves at times in an embarrassing
position between the parties.
The Circuit Judge, on the other hand, will
not be affected by such circumstaces. Justice
should be seen to be done, and it is strange that
the Bill should propose to confer a judicial func
tion to determine property rights on officials of
the Court who may be closely connected by former
professional relationships with one or other of
the parties.
MAYO SOLICITORS' BAR
ASSOCIATION
The Annual General Meeting of the Associ
ation held on 16th May, 1966, at which the
following Officers and Committee were elected for
the coming year :—
President, Patrick J. Durcan, Castlebar; Vice-
President, Lorcan Gill, Westport; Hon. Treasurer,
Miss Bea Hynes, Castlebar; Hon. Secretary,
Joseph Gilmartin, Castlebar. Committee : William
Dillon Leetch, T. V. O'Connor, John McHale,
Kevin Loftus, Patrick J. McEllin.
THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
The headquarters of the above Society is at
128 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Each county
and city in Ireland has its own Society, having
primary responsibility within its area for the pre
vention of cruelty
to animals.
It is
felt
that
normal
testators would wish
their beqtiests
to
further the work of the Society in the county or
district in which they reside. If the Testator also
wished
the ISPCA to benefit it
is considered
better that
this
take
the form of ai separate
specific request, as the ISPCA has a constitutional
sphere of its own.
REGISTRATION OF TITLE ACTS, 189E and 1942
ISSUE OF NEW LAND CERTIFICATE
Applications have been received from t&e registered
owners mentioned in the Schedule annexed hereto, for
the
issue of Certificates of Title in suBstituticsn
for
the original Certificates issued in respect of the' lands,
specified in the said Schedule, which original Certificates,
it is alleged, have been lost or inadvertently destroyed.
A new Certificate will be issued in each case;, except
in
respect of which notification
is
received
in
this
Registry within 28 days from the publication! of this
notice, that the Certificate of Title is still in existence,
and in
the custody of some persorn other
than
the
registered owner. Any such notification should state the
grounds on which such Certificate is being held.
Dated
the 13th day of June, 1966.
D. L. McALLISTER
Registrar of Titles
Central Office,
Land Registry,
Chancery Street,
Dublin.
SCHEDULE
1. Registered Owner, Denis O'Sullivan. Folio number
28829. County Kerry. Lands of Ballydonohoe in the
Barony of Iraghticonnor containing 5la. 3r. 38p.
2. Registered Owner, Anita Clinton. Folio number
3724. County Dublin. Lands of (No. 1) Baltrasna in
the Barony of Balrothery East containing 22a. 2r. 23p.
3. Registered Owner, Bruree Estate Limited. Folios
(a) 5440, (b) 16823. County Limerick. Lands of (a)
Garroose containing
la. 3r. 35p
and
lands of
(b)
Bruree containing 4a. Or.
14p. both situate
in
the
Barony of Connello Upper.